Bin Jiang
Dr. Bin Jiang is Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), where he serves as Professor of Urban Informatics in the Social Hub. He is also the Founding Director of LivableCityLAB and Acting Master of Residential College 1. His research focuses on geospatial analysis, urban science, and people-centered urban governance, with particular emphasis on topological analysis, scaling hierarchy, and living structure. He is the developer of Axwoman and the inventor of head/tail breaks, widely used methods for analyzing urban and geospatial big data. Inspired by Christopher Alexander, he pioneered quantitative models of structural beauty, including the L score, and Beautimeter, and advances a Living Structure + AI paradigm for human-centered urban design and governance.